The research is focused on a new approach to the control of the propagation environment in indoor scenarios using intelligent walls. The intelligent wall is a conventional wall situated inside a building, but equipped with an active frequency selective surface and sensors. The intelligent wall can be designed as a self-configuring and self-optimizing autonomous part of a collaborative infrastructure working within a high-capacity mobile radio system. The paper shows how such surfaces can be used to adjust the electromagnetic characteristics of the wall in response to changes in traffic demand, monitored using a network of sensors, thereby controlling the propagation environment inside the building.
Supported by
- Intelligent Infrastructures for Cognitive Networks, Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, grant no. OC10005, 2010-2012
- COST Action IC0902, Cognitive Radio and Networking for Cooperative Coexistence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks, 2009-2013
Selected papers
- Subrt, L. – Pechac, P.: Advanced 3D indoor propagation model: calibration and implementation, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011. 2011:180, doi:10.1186/1687-1499-2011-180.
- Subrt, L. – Pechac, P.: Intelligent Walls as Autonomous Parts of Smart Indoor Environments, IET Communications. 2012, vol. 6, no. 8, p. 1004-1010, DOI: 10.1049/iet-com.2010.0544, ISSN 1751-8628.
- Subrt, L. – Grace, D. – Pechac, P.: Controlling the Short-Range Propagation Environment Using Active Frequency Selective Surfaces. Radioengineering. 2010, vol. 19, no. 4, p. 610-615. ISSN 1210-2512.
- Subrt, L. – Pechac, P.: Semi-Deterministic Propagation Model for Subterranean Galleries and Tunnels, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. 2010, vol. 58, no. 11, p. 3701-3706. ISSN 0018-926X.
